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• AMERICAN STUDIESFall 2008
For more information about positions listed below, contact the appropriate faculty member. The GSI application coversheet is available as a PDF download. Any further questions can be directed to Marcia Condon, Student Affairs Advisor, American Studies (mcondon@berkeley.edu).
GSI POSITIONS
All positions are pending budgetary approval.
Positions are 50% at the GSI I, II or III level, depending on teaching experience.
Unless otherwise noted, each GSI will teach two sections of 25 students. Sections meet once a week for one hour.
10 - INTRO. TO AMERICAN STUDIES, Section 01: Work in America (4 units) - CC# 02003
TTh 12:30-02:00 160 Kroeber Instructors: K. Moran & M. Cohen
Sec. 101: CC# 02006 Tu 02:00-03:00, 259 Dwinelle
Sec. 102: CC# 02009 Tu 04:00-05:00, 183 Dwinelle
Sec. 103: CC# 02012 W 10:00-11:00, 179 Stanley
Sec. 104: CC# 02015 W 02:00-03:00, 228 DwinelleThis course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of American Studies, taking “Work” as its central theme. We will explore the way historians, political economists, geographers, sociologists, writers and artists understand the meaning of work, the places where Americans work, and the stories we tell ourselves about our work lives. Specific topics will include the American class system, the psychology of work, labor history, the political economy of farm labor, places of work-- factories, offices and kitchens, and popular culture representations of work and everyday life.
C132B – American Intellectual History (4 units) - CC# 02057 -- POSITION CLOSED
MWF 10:00-11:00 390 Hearst Min Instructor: D.A. Hollinger
Also cross-listed as History C132B.Sec. 101: CC# 02059 W 12:00-01:00, 321 Haviland
Sec. 102: CC# 02105 Th 01:00-02:00, 2523 Tolman
Sec. 103: CC# 02108 Th 10:00-11:00, 201 Giannini
Sec. 104: CC# 02111 F 09:00-10:00, 201 GianniniThis lecture course traces the work of leading American thinkers since the Civil War. The cast of characters includes Mark Twain, William James, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thorstein Veblen, Margaret Mead, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dewey, James Baldwin, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Betty Friedan, Thomas Kuhn, Richard Rorty, and Carl Sagan. Among the episodes addressed are Victorianism and the revolt against it, the decline of Protestant cultural hegemony, the emergence of an ethno-religiously diverse intelligentsia, and the debates over Darwinism, modernism, pragmatism, communism, postmodernism, feminism, racism, and multiculturalism. Readings include selections from Hollinger and Capper, The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook (5th edition, 2006). Midterm, 10-page paper, final exam.
Pending budgetary approval, American Studies will hire one of the two GSIs. Contact the professor for further information.
C111E, Section 01 – Mysteries of the City (4 units) - CC# 02039
TTh 12:30-02:00 390 Hearst Min Instructor: S. Otter & D. Henkin
Also cross-listed as English C136 & History 100.Sec. 101: CC# 02041 W 03:00-04:00, 5 Evans
Sec. 102: CC# 02114 W 04:00-05:00, 81 Evans
Sec. 103: CC# 02117 Tu 03:00-04:00, 7 Evans
Sec. 104: CC# 02120 Tu 04:00-05:00, 7 Evans
Sec. 105: CC# 02123 W 12:00-01:00, 2032 VLSB
Sec. 106: CC# 02126 Th 09:00-10:00, 2066 VLSBCo-taught by a literary scholar and a historian, this course offers an interdisciplinary examination of how the American metropolis has been portrayed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in novels, short stories, poetry, journalism, essays, photography, and film. We will pay special attention to texts and images of New York, but we also will devote significant attention to four other cities (Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles) in different periods of American urban history. There will be two midterms and one final examination. All examinations will include both in-class and take-home components.
Book List: Child, L.: Letters from New York; Foster, G. : New York By Gaslight; Lippard, G.: Quaker City; Thompson, G.: Venus in Boston; Webb, F.: Garies and Their Friends; Riis, J.: How the Other Half Lives; Addams, J.: Twenty years at Hull-House; Levy: 920 O’Farrell Street; Norris, F.: McTeague; Johnson, J.: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; Hammett, D.: Maltese Falcon; Chandler, R.: Big Sleep; West, N.: Day of the Locus; Dick, P.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Delany, S.: Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Pending budgetary approval, American Studies will hire two of the three GSIs. Contact the professor for further information.
C112A – American Built Environment (4 units) - CC# 02042
TTh 11:00-12:30 112 Wurster Instructor: P. Groth
Also cross-listed as ED c169A, Geog c160A.
Sec. 101: CC# 02045 Tu 01:00-02:00, 104 Wurster
Sec. 102: CC# 02048 W 12:00-01:00, 801A Wurster
Sec. 103: CC# 02051 Th 10:00-11:00, 601A Wurster
Sec. 104: CC# 02054 Th 04:00-05:00, 104 WursterThis course introduces ways of seeing and interpreting American histories and cultures, as revealed in everyday built surroundings: homes, highways, farms, factories, stores, recreation areas, small towns, city districts, and regions. The course encourages students to read landscapes as records of past and present social relations, and to speculate for themselves about cultural meaning. This course satisfies the pre-1900 requirement for American Studies majors.
Note that although this course deals with culture, and America, it does not deal equally with three different cultures. Thus, it does NOT satisfy the University’s American Cultures requirement.Pending budgetary approval, American Studies will hire one of the two GSIs. Contact the professor for further information.
READERSHIPS
To apply for a reader position, please contact the appropriate faculty member. There is one reader position for each course, unless otherwise noted. All positions are pending budgetary approval and sufficient enrollment numbers.
101, Section 01 – The Harlem Renaissance (4 Units) - CC# 02030
MW 10:00-12:00 9 Evans Instructor: C. Palmer
This course explores the social, cultural, political and personal awakenings in the literature, art and music of the Negro Renaissance or the New Negro Movement, known as the Harlem Renaissance. This was a time (roughly 1918-1930) when, in the midst of legal segregation and increasing anti-black mob violence, black American writers, artists, philosophers, activists, and musicians, congregating in New York City's Harlem, reclaimed the right to represent themselves in a wide range of artistic forms and activist movements. This course will focus on the forces that led to this "renaissance" as well as those that fueled it. Primary texts for this course include Jean Toomer, Cane; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; George Schuyler, Black No More; Nella Larsen, Passing; poetry by Langston Hughes; and works by Claude McKay, Alain Locke, Mae Cowdery, Sterling Brown, Anne Spencer, Jessie Fauset and others.
Fall 2008
C1. Introduction to Cognitive Science. (4)
Three hours of lecture and two hours of discussion per week. This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. Lectures and readings will survey research from artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience, and will cover topics such as the nature of knowledge, thinking, remembering, vision, imagery, language, and consciousness. Sections will demonstrate some of the major methodologies.
Application Process
To apply for the Cognitive Science positions listed here, please contact the instructor, Jennifer Hudin, directly. She can be reached at the following email address: hudin@berkeley.edu
Fall 2008
GSI position description for ES10 Fall Term
The foundation course, Introduction to Environmental Sciences (ES 10) is co-instructed by Professors Bill Berry (EPS) and Matt Kondolf (LAEP) in the fall semesters. About 150 students from diverse departments, including non-science majors, enroll in this course every year. The class focuses on watershed processes, and lectures feature UC faculty and staff who are conducting research on urban streams. Students enroll in weekly lab/discussion sections, where they conduct field-based research and analysis of watershed issues.
GSIs serving a 25% appointment for ES 10 attend all lectures, which occur on M,W, F from 9:10-10:00 a.m. GSIs also teach one 2-hour discussion section. In addition, GSIs grade student work (two weekly assignments, one final project), organize field excercises, co-lead two half-day field trips, hold office hours (1 hour per section), and develop and present one lecture. The GSIs also split the following duties: AV coordination, writing exams, coordinating guest speakers, web site maintenance. A veteran GSI serves as lab coordinator but does not teach a section.
Please contact Carol Snow (casnow@berkeley.edu) for the application form.
Spring 2008
For more information about positions listed below, contact the appropriate faculty member. The GSI application cover sheet is available as a PDF download. Any further questions can be directed to Dawn Strough, Student Affairs Advisor, ISF (dstrough@berkeley.edu).
GSI POSITIONS
All positions are pending budgetary approval.
Positions are 50% at the GSI I, II or III level, depending on teaching experience.
Unless otherwise noted, each GSI will teach two sections of 25 students. Sections meet once a week for one hour.
ISF 100D: Technology and Society
TTH 9:30-11:00 101 Barker Instructor: Renate Holub
This course surveys the technological revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries, it then focuses on the development of the computer and the Internet. The final part examines the impact of the Internet on social movements. In this course, we will focus on three major technological paradigms that have emerged over the past 150 years in the global north: the industrial revolution, the transportation and communication revolution, and the information- technological revolution.
(Applications may also be submitted to the receptionist in 301 Campbell Hall.)
Questions? Call Dawn at 643-7691 or email at isf@berkeley.edu
Reader Position:
ISF 60 "Science, Technology and Values in the Global Arena":
TuTh 1230-2pm, 150 GSPPJob Description: Attend lectures, grade 2 exams per
student, grade student group papers (ca. 25).Requirements: Strong background in a social science
discipline that deals with Society and Technology
issues (medical anthropology, sociology, law,
political science, etc.); ideally grad student level;
excellent work ethic.This position is pending budgetary approval and sufficient enrollment numbers.
Send resume to: cipolat at yahoo.com (subject heading:
Reader ISF 60)
Application deadline: Dec. 10, 2007.Reader Position:
ISF 100B: Introduction to Social Theory & Cultural Analysis
Location: TuTh 1230-2P, 180 TAN
Instructor: Dr. Robert EHRLICHCourse description: Introduction to classical and contemporary analyses of the development and construction of individual identity, the concepts of subjectivity and agency, and notions about the inner life. An exploration of the construction of meaning and communication through an examination of works from discourse analysis, symbolic anthropology, literary and film studies.
Interested graduate students should contact Dr. Ehrlich directly at 510-525-9129
This position is pending budgetary approval and sufficient enrollment numbers.
Fall 2008
Letters and Science 20D: Ang Lee, James Schamus and American Film Genres
Instructor: Kathleen Moran
Mondays and Wednesdays 4-5:30
Discussion section times TBA“Let’s jump from genre to genre and be filmmakers and see what we can make of these gifts; whether from Hong Kong or Hollywood, these genres are now so often ossified relics. [We need to] go back in there and shake ’em up.” James Schamus, on Ang Lee in indieWIRE
In this course we will discuss the way that the Hollywood film industry developed and deployed a set of narrative formulas, visual conventions, character types and other codes to economize and systematize the marketing of its products. Distinctive genres including westerns, family melodramas, screwball comedies, gangster films, musicals, and horror films emerged during the “classic” period, and continued to evolve for decades. New genres were “born,” older genres “died” or were revised, and classic formulas re-appeared in self-reflexive, parodic, subversive and/or hybrid variations. Director Ang Lee and writer, James Schamus have collaborated on a remarkable set of films that truly “shake up” classic American genres. We will watch a number of the Hollywood films that scholars have defined as “quintessential” or definitive versions of some genre, and analyze Lee/Shamus films as comments on the generic conventions, as updated readings of the nature of popular audiences, as re-imaginations of American myths, and as reflections of contemporary historical reality. This course is being offered in conjunction with the On the Same Page program in the College of Letters & Science.
One GSI position, pending budgetary approval.
Position is 50% at the GSI I, II or III level, depending on teaching experience.
The GSI will teach two sections of 25 students. Sections meet once a week for one hour.
To apply, submit the attached form to Kathleen Moran (kmoran@berkeley.edu. 301 Campbell Hall), with a copy to Shamideh Rossoukh Cruz (ugis_support@learning.Berkeley.edu, 301 Campbell Hall). Questions about the position may be directed to Kathleen Moran.
8 GSI POSITIONS AVAILABLE for FALL 2008--deadline extended!
Letters and Sciences R44 (Formerly known as UGIS R44A)
Topics in Western Civilization
The course focuses on the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, both east and west (ancient Near East, classical Greece, and Rome to the empire) and how their cultural and intellectual interactions produced what we identify as "Western Civilization." Discussions and reading assignments will involve interdisciplinary approaches with an emphasis on the development of skill in writing.
The lecture meets Tu/Th 9:30-11:00. It will be co-taught by Kathleen McCarthy and Francesca Rochberg.
Each GSI will teach one Reading and Composition section of 17 students. These sections will meet twice a week for one hour.
Note: Graduate students interested in L&S R44 who have not previously taught Reading and Composition courses will be required to attend a composition pedagogy course.
All of the posts are 50% positions at the GSI I, II, or III level (depending on experience).
To apply, submit the following:
* A completed academic biography (form U-1501. Available from your home department or 301 Campbell Hall)
* A cover sheet (available from 301 Campbell Hall)
* 3 letters of recommendation (they do not have to be recommendations specifically for this position)To: Shamideh Rossoukh-Cruz
Undergraduate Division
College of Letters and Science
301 Campbell Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-2922Questions? Shamideh: 643-0554 or ugis_support@learning.Berkeley.edu
Alix: 642-8378 or alix@berkeley.edu8 GSI positions are available.
Extended deadline: April 4, 2008
2008 - 2009
Fall 2008
Mass Communications 10: Mass Communications in America: An Introduction
Instructor: Marina LevinaAn introduction to the history, functions, and control of mass
communication institutions in the United States, and to media
contents and effects.The lecture meets Tu Th 11-12:30. Each GSI will teach two sections
of 25 students. These sections will each meet twice a week for one hour.
These posts are 50% positions at the GSI I, II or III level (depending on teaching experience).
5 GSI POSITIONS ARE AVAILABLE, pending budgetary approval.
Mass Communications 102: The Effects of the Mass Media
Instructor: Jean RetzingerSurvey and critical analysis of theory and research on the effects
of media exposure and media messages.The lecture meets Tu Th 11-12:30. Each GSI will teach two
sections of 25 students each. These sections will each meet twice a week
for one hour.These posts are are 50% positions at the GSI I, II, or III level (depending on teaching experience).5 GSI POSITIONS ARE AVAILABLE, pending budgetary approval.
Spring 2009
Mass Communications 101: The Structure of Mass Communications
Instructor and meeting time: Marina LevinaAnalysis of contemporary structures of mass communications,
primarily in capitalist societies, with historical background on the
popular press, radio and television The organization of news and
entertainment is examined.Comparison with other societies is featured.The lecture time is TBA. Each GSI will teach two sections of 25
students each. These sections will each meet twice a week for one hour.
These posts are 50% psitions at the GSI I, II or III level (depending on teaching experience).5 GSI POSITIONS ARE AVAILABLE, pending budgetary approval.
To apply, submit a completed academic biography (form U-1501, available
from your home department or 301 Campbell Hall), a cover sheet
(available from 301 Campbell Hall), and 3 letters of recommendation
(e-mails are fine)
to:Marty Gaetjens, UGIS, 301 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, Ca. 94720-2922
(Applications may also be submitted to the receptionist in 301 Campbell Hall.)Questions? E-mail Marty at
sfyankee@berkeley.eduApplications will be accepted until the positions have been filled.
Fall 2008
Religious Studies 90B: Introduction to Religious Studies
Topic: Science and Religion
Must science and religion conflict? Historically, science and religion
have explained nature from different perspectives. Those explanations
often appear to conflict, but closer scientific study and deeper
religious insight often show places of fruitful dialogue and
integration. The course explores topics of nature and humanity where
science and religion conflict, dialogue, and integrate.
Instructor: Mark Graves
The lecture time is TuTh 2-3:30. Each GSI will teach two sections of 25 students. These sections will each meet once a week for one hour. These posts are 50% positions at the GSI I, II or III level (depending on teaching experience).
4 GSI POSITIONS ARE AVAILABLE, pending budgetary approval.
To apply, submit a completed academic biography (form U-1501, available from your home department or 301 Campbell Hall), a cover sheet (available from 301 Campbell Hall), and 3 letters of recommendation (e-mails are fine) to:Marty Gaetjens, UGIS, 301 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, Ca. 94720-2922
(Applications may also be obtained and submitted with the receptionist in 301 Campbell Hall.)Questions? E-mail Marty at sfyankee@.berkeley.edu
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